Commonwealth Numbered Acts

GENEVA CONVENTIONS AMENDMENT ACT 1991 No. 27 of 1991 - SECT 4

4. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended:

   (a)  by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection:

"(1A) In this Act:
'Protocol I' means the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12
August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed
Conflicts (Protocol I), done at Geneva on 10 June 1977, a copy of the English
text of which is set out in Schedule 5.";

   (b)  by adding at the end of the definition of "protected prisoner of war"
        in subsection (2) "or a person who is a prisoner of war for the
        purposes of Protocol I";
(c) by omitting "or the Fourth Convention" from the definition of "the
protecting power" in subsection (2) and substituting ", the Fourth Convention
or Protocol I";

   (d)  by omitting from subsection (3) "Conventions" and "Convention" and
        substituting "Conventions or of Protocol I" and "Convention or that
        Protocol" respectively.